What Did You Do In The Garden?

[Dahlia]

DH fell and hit his head, getting up in the middle of the night, sans any light on. Went to PT and therapist told him anybody on blood thinners is highly susceptible to a brain bleed, so get a CT Scan. He did that, then they saw something and wanted an MRI, which didn't happen until 3PM ToDAY, so another overnight stay so that they can read it.
ANYWAY, I burned yesterday morning, was sure that the small pile was out BUT winds picked up. I didn't make it home until 10PM last night. I was SURE that I burned my place down.
Nope.
God intervened and kept it all safe.
DH is looking better than ME, well rested and he got some HD pain meds.

I'm glad he was ok!

 

[ducks4you]

I will reply in my thread.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Keep you in my prayers … sending blessings your way…

 

[digitS']

Cleared the peppers out of the greenhouse. I should have done that earlier but I knew that they would be a mess to handle right after they froze. Dried up now so the plants could be carried out and cut into manageable lengths to be tossed into the stealth compost bins.

First, the deck outside the greenhouse door had to be moved for access. The boards were frozen to the concrete blocks! After 2 trips around beating on it with a sledge hammer, it was movable. Not much compost in 2 of the bins under it but about the top 4" was frozen. Broke that out and tossed the plants in. Only the most recently filled 5-gallon bucket of kitchen scraps could be added. It sits in the full sun and we have certainly had a lot of that in these final days of December. A big chunk of frozen material fell out but, at least, I ended up with one empty bucket. Covered this small amount.

It's remarkable that I could do any of this but, shoot, it counts as garden work and a little better than 30 minutes walking which would have amounted to my daily exercise otherwise .

 

[flowerbug]

much better than what i accomplished today in the gardens @digitS' as i just looked at them for a few moments.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Cleared Doug fir branches and stacked wood in the wagon.

 

[ducks4you]

Ironically, I gardened yesterday. January thaw and warm and dry outside.
DD's forgot to plant some of their bulbs, so I had an area north of my garage that had loose soil, and good nighttime garage lighting.
I planted:
25 Queen of the Night purple tulips
~35 small red and yellow tulip bulbs
60 Dutch Iris
NOT where they belong, but we didn't loose any of them.
It gave me an outing, since I haven't left the property in over a month and a half.

 

[Marie2020]

This is not what I did but this very kind gentleman did this for a man desperately in need of help

Meet Uncle Jhonn

 

[ducks4you]

Been cleaning up Tegan plops...with my metal stall rake...depositing with used bedding under a fenceline OVER cardboard.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Today was a good sunny afternoon for catching up on garden stuff. You know that stuff that sneaks up on ya during wind, rain & snow storms. Not even gonna talk about the weeds…. OMG.

Although lately I have been tackling a 35-40 ish foot Douglas Fir tree that decided to just pass out & croak in the north pasture. It was a seedling grown from bird droppings in the middle of … well those awful Himalayan wild blackberry patches with thorns the size of swords. Needless to say I got the blackberry mess cleared out. It took me almost a year to clear a 25’x40’ section. But got it done looked really nice too. Until the Doug fir tree twirled up and died . Needless to say the needles from that tree are falling like an avalanche flowing over everything that doesn’t move . I hacked away at a few 20-25 footish long branches , then hauled them across the pasture to the deer fence.

I’m building a detour for those determined darling deer, mmmm deer from eating all my winter booms . Besides chasing them off the pastures on my tractor with my pellet gun. No pellets just the noise from the pellet gun scares them. But not if I come up on them without it. They just stand in front of me guarding their spot of ground snacks in my garden. Years of these shenanigans have been goings on… Of course some plants are safe from this poor starving massive deer herd , about 20-25 in this herd strong . They heave a special Ol’Factory sensory system which detects the alkaline poison in flowers and buds , which remain in the winter garden for now. At least I have a few flowers they don’t end up on their menu.

Every year the herds are getting bigger and bigger. Last time I saw them was in January when the entire herd wizzed past me in a panic during the day while I clipping the trees near the forest in the east pasture. They lived here way before humans ever came and I guess I’m really their guest and that’s our history for many years. A constant parade of wild animals that roam here daily yet are totally detested and endured every day.